Uh, tell that to J.K. Rowling.

J.K. Rowling and everyone else that made this list.

I could list a bunch of uber-successful bloggers too if it were not so late.

Probably true for screenwriters though.

Ok – enough – goodnight.

At various times I’ve toured the three major agencies: William Morris, ICM, and CAA, and have been a client of two of the three, though never a particularly happy client. Probably that was because I was a writer and writers are always small potatoes at the big agencies, particularly in the budgetary sense. They want Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and the like. You can’t blame the agencies for that: after all, they are in business to make money.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

In praise of short chapters?

In praise of all short writing.

Because blathering on and on is easy.

Short impactful sentences are hard.

And like I have said before – a certain chapter or a certain blog post does not have to be the end-all-be-all treatise on what I think about a given issue.

I mean, I have written about short blog posts before. And here.

The hilarious part is that this passage below is the entirety of chapter 26.

Ha!

LATELY READERS HAVE begun to complain about my short chapters, although in my opinion there is no particular reason why a chapter should be long. Does one complain to Rimbaud because of the brevity of his verse? In fact I am old and there are very many subjects about which I have something to say—just not much.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)